2012-1

NuSkin Comp Plan Review – Can You Still Make Big Money With Nu Skin?

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I guess the big question many people have when taking a look at a MLM business like NuSkin is if the Nu Skin compensation plan is really that profitable, and can you actually make money with a company like NuSkin?

I mean let’s face it, NuSkin is not exactly a new deal, they have been around for over 25 years and there are so many variations of MLM compensation plans that have been developed over the last few years, can an old standard Unilevel compensation plan still get the job done?

OK so let’s discuss that, but first let’s gets some facts straight about MLM compensation plans. There are in today’s market so many different variations of network marketing compensation plans you could fill a pretty big book just analyzing them: Binary, Hybrid-Binary (MonaVie Review), Matrix, Forced Matrix, Top Tier MLM, Hybrid Top Tier MLM (Family IQ Review) and so many blends and variations of them its staggering.

But look, just think about it in general terms, does it really matter if it’s a Unilevel or a Binary, or a Binary with a Directors match or daily cash paying matrix? They all pay good money.

Every company you look at in the MLM industry has top earners and they all make the big money once they get an organization up and running and growing explosively.

NuSkin’s compensation plan has of course stood the test of time, and it is profitable. When you look at the compensation that the top reps with NuSkin have pulled over the years, the numbers are pretty staggering.

I have friends in NuSkin who have earned over $40 million dollars, and the ranks of their $20 million dollar club are pretty full also.

However that’s just one part of the picture. The NuSkin compensation plan has proved its ability to generate big dollars but it is not necessarily the easiest to build.

Building For Bucks – NuSkin Compensation Plan Optimization

I think the better question when you join a particular MLM is how do you maximize the compensation plan for that company?

Every type of compensation plan in MLM requires a slightly different building strategy to maximize it, so let’s discuss what you need to do with NuSkin to get to the big bucks.

Now just so you don’t think that I am talking out of school here, I will point out that NuSkin was my first MLM and I did become a 7 figure earner with them within my first 3 years. I also have no current affiliation with them so this is not a commercial for the company (see my recent NuSkin Review).

So how do you max out this baby?

Tapping The NuSkin Money Vault

Well with a “Unilevel” or “Stairstep Breakaway” system like NuSkin uses you are basically tapping a rectangle of production. You can only tap to a certain depth so greater income comes from having a larger front line which then spreads as it goes down kind of like a pyramid (I love that word) which in turn gives you a larger group to tap. The larger your front line the larger your base.

Now with their version of a “Unilevel” there is no limit to the number of people you can have in your dowline, but you can only tap to a certain depth in the structure. To tap the depth you have to build your front line (personally sponsored distributors) to a certain width and you must have a certain number of your front like distributors achieve certain production quotas and become NuSkin Executive Distributors.

NuSkin Executive Distributors

There are also two classes of distributors in the NuSkin comp plan, the regular run of the mill distributors and Executive distributors (or as the are sometimes called, breakaways).

Now when you sponsor someone you do get a commission based on what they do, but you cannot tap their dowline until you earn the right by becoming an Executive distributor (there are volume requirements).

Once you are an Executive you can now tap your entire NuSkin group of regular distributors with no limit in depth, this is called your “Circle Group”, however you are limited in being able to tap Executive distributors based on how many Executives you have on your front line.

Now if you sponsor someone and they really take off, and become an Executive and there are Executives below them, you can’t get paid on that extended downline of Executives until you generate more Executives on your front line.

And so begins the race

Now when you start this footrace you have to think strategically and move fast or you will leave money on the table.

You have to build width on your front line quickly so you can tap the depth of your group but at the same time you have to support and stimulate a certain amount of depth or there will be nothing there to tap.

Go Wide Fast!

Now I found the best building approach for comp plans like NuSkin, is to go wide fast and at the same time reach down one or two levels and support the depth.

One key point here, never ever stop personal recruiting to manage your group. That is the death of an MLM business.

The Sifting Process

So the first step in building this structure is to sift your prospects to find your distributors.

Now in a unilevel program, everyone you sponsor goes on your front line, and starts an additional leg of your business. So the more people you sponsor the wider the top of your structure is.

Next you have to sift your distributors to find the people who actually do something. Then you sift those reps to see who the 20% Percenters are. They are the ones who are actually serious about building an organization.

Now at this point if you are an Executive, you are tapping your entire organization as deep as it goes but this is not where the big money is since most of this group will be doing small volumes or just using the product.

NuSkin Executive Qualification & Breakaways

The 20% Percenters are the ones who will become the basis of your income stream and they will generally go into Executive qualification and become what is called a breakaway Executive.

Now when a distributor becomes a “break away”, the commission you were making on their NuSkin group can drop from as much 14% down to 5%.

Ouch!

This is a dramatic reduction of course and is just the way break away systems work, but the theory is that you are making 5% of the group production of someone who is a business builder so it should actually be more.

Now once you have one NuSkin Executive on your front line you can tap 5% on any Exectuvie and their groups on your first level only.

To tap 2 levels of Executive distributor commissions you have to have 2 breakaway Executives on your first level and so on.

With 1 executive on your front line you are a “NuSkin Gold Executive” and can tap a 5% commission on your front like executives entire group volume. There are different rank designations NuSkin depending on how many front line executives you have “Ruby”, Emerald, etc, with the top rank being achieved when you reach “Blue Diamond” one you have 12 Executive break-aways.

The maximum depth you can tap on the NuSkin comp plan is 6 levels of Executives and you have to be a “Blue Diamond” and be 12 Executives wide on your front line to do that.

Rollups & The Compression Factor – The Road To Big Bucks In NuSkin

Now of course there is a reason they call it a Breakaway, and that is because it does not matter where a distributor is in your group or on what level they are, when they become an Executive they will break away from their position in the dowline and roll up beneath the next qualified Executive in the structure.

So in effect if you snooze you lose. If you sponsor a hot distributor and you are not an Executive and they qualify before you do, you lose them as an Executive and they roll up the line.

That means bye-bye Executive bonus on that rep, and by the way, in NuSkin, once it’s gone its gone forever.

If you are a big player this compression actually works to your benefit since all the power in your downline will roll up and compress below you.

Where did you think the big NuSkin checks came from?

So the money is in the Executive groups, and you want a lot of them within your 6 level payout.

In the end it’s a 5% ballgame in NuSkin, but with a large enough group that can amount to big bucks.

NuSkin Group Building Tips

Once again build wide fast is the best approach here and as you will discover not everyone you bring in will be a mover so I recommend you set your goal on sponsoring 6 to 10 reps a month and then sift that group down to find your 20% Percenters.

Now the way I achieved the big bucks in NuSkin was to implement “The Law of Large Numbers”. I developed some innovative marketing approaches that generated 80 to 100 leads a week and then used leveraged sales funnels to sift that traffic down to the serious prospects and then of course to the 20% Percenters.

Then by using a specific duplication model I ended up generating over 21 front like Executive Distributors that settled down to about 16 over the long haul, and then the golden doors opened.

There were of course other NuSkin distributors who used more of the “Old School MLM Marketing” approaches, however their success in many cases took much longer and many of the Blue Diamonds hit their success through pure luck by surfacing one of those magical 1% Percenters.

The year I retired from active status in NuSkin and just decided to cash my checks and travel, there were over 260 top level reps, and the average income of that group was about $760,000 a year.

Not Bad eh?

However if you analyzed the income streams of those top NuSkin reps, the blue diamonds, you would find some interesting numbers. Over 70 percent of them by my analysis derived over 2/3rds of their income stream from 1 or 2 key distributors that came into their group.

Interesting eh?

Such is the nature of the “Standard MLM” compensation plan. In that MLM model, your search and success is predicated on finding the mythical 1% Percenters, those people who will come in and explode your group. However if you use traditional approaches, face to face, warm market, etc, you are doing one off presentations and it can take you a lifetime to surface one of them.

So using high volume strategies and automation and leverage gets you there quicker.

So the lesson here is that if you are courting success in any MLM business, you need to use a high volume lead generation approach to get a large enough flow of leads on a daily basis to power your business plan.

The best way to do that in today’s market is to use online marketing approach.

So in closing I guess that there has been very big money earned by aggressive Nu Skin distributors in the past and that being a well run, very creative company,I have no doubt that distributors will continue to profit in the future.

However maybe the better question to ask is whether or not this is the best way to the end result?

I mean we are here to make money right?

The truth is that old standard Unilevel compensation programs like NuSkin uses are powerful as a result of the compression or rollup factor which tends to concentrate your best most productive action and distributors near the top of your organization where you can actually tap it, but it takes time, sometimes a long time to get the real benefit of that type of compression since to reap the big rewards you have to apply that compression factor to a very large group to “squeeze” the “diamonds” and of course the “Blue Diamonds” (NuSkin Top Distributor ranking) out of the raw material.

And in today’s fast paced MLM marketplace where distributors and being bombarded with new distracting offers 20 minutes after you sponsor them, can building that size of a group and stabilizing it be done as easily as it was even 10 years ago?

Humm…. I guess that’s the real question

Success in NuSkin or any MLM business hinges on your ability to structure it as a real business and to have a high volume lead generation system in place so you can look beyond just your friends and family for your success.

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2012-1

Kyani International Review – Any Life Left In The MLM Superjuice Market?

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Ok so here we go again, I thought I had finally seen all the superjuice companies in existence but then there they were, Kyani International, a relatively new player in the MLM field, with yet another superjuice.

Kyani hopes to tap whatever action may be left in the once unstoppable superjuice market by creating a product that leverages on the antioxidant power of blueberries, and not just any blueberries, specifically Alaskan blueberries!

Now don’t get me wrong here, I am a big believer in health and nutrition, but I for one am tired of looking at superjuices.

Now of course this market segment was a huge powerhouse in the MLM industry for years, and some of the success stories such as Tahitian Noni, Xango, and the famed MonaVie hit growth curves while in their prime that were dizzying. MonaVie in particular as I pointed out in a recent blog post, MonaVie Review, churned out pretty close to $980,000 per month in commission payments to their top distributor Brig Hart using a simple Hybrid-binary MLM compensation plan and pretty much turned the industry its collective ear for several years.

Wait a minute, did I say $980,000 a month???

Good grief batman! No wonder we love network marketing……

But of course what the market givith the market can also taketh away, and today the proud superjuice giants of a few years ago are looking a little worse for wear (see MonaVie Review Update).

However the fantastic growth of this market caused a literal flood of superjuice products to hit the market as aspiring company founders trotted off to the far corners of the world with dollar signs in their eyes, in search of yet another undiscovered mystery fruit.

At its high point a few years ago the true superjuice believers had so many bottles of different superjuices in their refrigerator there wasn’t even room for the milk.

While you would think that such a market is already over saturated, it seems that consumers still welcome new health drinks with open arms.

There is of course some evidence that antioxidants from fruits, such as blueberries, may lessen the risk of cancer. This is the assumption upon which Kyani has established its business model. The FDA, however, does not approve of such an assumption because of inconclusive evidence. Just like the thousands of other MLM companies out there, Kyani International operates on a distribution basis wherein sales associates get the products at wholesale prices. Those associates are then tasked to generate leads, recruit other associates, and close sales.

Kyani International

According to Kyani’s official website, two of the co-founders — Gayle and Dick Powell – were in Alaska and they chanced upon someone who was doing a research on the Tlingit tribe. They found out that the members of this tribe regularly consumed Alaskan Blueberry and Sockeye Salmon. According to studies, these two foods contain very high nutritional value.

With knowledge of what had happened in the superjuice market over the last several years by companies bringing a unique product to market, the Powell’s were excited about the prospect of launching what they felt was a unique product using an MLM business model and based on the Alaskan Blueberry. They relayed this information to several potential business partners and together they founded Kyani International in 2005. Keeping with the Alaskan motif, they chose the name Kyani which in the Tlingit native American language stands for “Strong Medicine.”

The company is headed by CEO Michael Breshears, who has years of experience in leading MLM companies. His previous roles encompass all aspects of the multi-level marketing business from logistics to customer service to distribution and marketing. He also continues to be active in the Direct Selling Association (DSA).

Presently, Kyani International is still a privately-held firm that operates in Asia, Europe, and North America. While it was established in 2005, it wasn’t until three years later that the company started to show appreciable growth when they finally began to attract some successful experienced networkers to their product and business model.

Kyani Products

Unlike other health drink MLM companies that carry a number of products, Kyani International only offers four in its product line. These three nutritional drinks are the following

Kyani Sunrise. This is a vitamin-infused healthy beverage that contains not just the Wild Alaskan Blueberry but also 10 other “Super Foods” – Red Raspberry, Concord Grapes, Pomegranate, Blueberry, Noni, Aloe Vera, Wolfberry, Grape Seed/Skin, Cranberry, and Bee Pollen. One ounce a day of the Kyani Sunrise is designed to maintain a healthy heart, reduce stress, enhance immunity, boost energy, and improve brain function.

Kyani Sunset. This is a dietary supplement in capsule form that contains omega-3 from Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon. Also among its ingredients is Annatto seed that contains high levels of Tocotrienols, from which pure vitamin E is derived. This supplement serves to reduce cholesterol, control inflammation, maintain cardiovascular health, boost immunity, increase energy, enhance brain function, maintain blood sugar level, and promote healthier hair and skin.

Kyani NitroFX. Nitric Oxide products are well known in the health and bodybuilding markets and this product is a noni plant-based product that leverages the power of nitric oxide, which according to studies helps improve our body’s circulation, energy, and cell repair function. Just a little of this product is said to increase blood flow, enhance heart health, improve immunity, enhance sexual health, and maintain blood sugar balance.

Kyani NitroXtreme. This product is designed to maximize our body’s production of Nitric Oxide through increased Nitrate content and the addition of other key ingredients like Magnesium, Chromium, Zinc, Niacin, and CoQ10 which all are beneficial to our health. A few drops a day of this product improves blood flow, promotes a healthy cardiovascular system, boosts immunity, lowers the risk of resistance to insulin, and fosters the proper functioning of the digestive system.

Kyani’s marketing materials promote the concept that these products work with each synergistically other to lower the risk of disease, neutralize free radicals, and enhance overall health and well-being.

Now of course the main marketing focus of most Network Marketing health products and especially superjuices is that some product users experience pretty remarkable health benefits that are tangible (can actually be felt) and these testimonials are then used to provide a demonstration of how effective and life changing the company’s products can be.

As such, you will most likely have customers who will love the products and swear that they work miracles, while there will be others who won’t be as enthusiastic but are sold on the factual health benefit research done by the company.

The key of course is to do a little research on the products’ ingredients before you get swept away by the glowing testimonials, to make sure that there actually is any validity to the health benefits or if it’s just distributor ra-ra.

Now having said that, since I am a nutritional buff, at least in this case I can pretty much assure you that there are definite health benefits that can be achieved from supplements using Nitric Oxide, Tocotrienols, and the antioxidant power of blueberries.

Kyani Compensation Plan

Depending on how you get started with Kyani, you’ll be charged with upfront enrollment fees that range from $299 to $999. On top of this, there is a monthly autoship and back office fee of $150.

Compensation primarily banks on Kyani’s 3 x 7 Forced Matrix system for their distributors. Under this plan, you’d only need three people in your first line but at the same time have the chance to sponsor unlimited personal distributors in your matrix. Since you can sponsor any number of personal distributors, the amount of money you can earn is not limited. In fact, you get to earn a 100% matching check from every person you sponsor when they become leaders themselves.

There are also other ways through which you can earn including Sponsor Bonuses, Fast Start Bonuses, Car Program, Leadership Pools, and Incentive Trips.

Now most of the comp plan perks are fairly standard however there was one that kind of got my attention was the comp plan perk called the Rank Bonus:

Kyani Rank Bonus

Emerald Rank Bonus Payout. Achieve Emerald and maintain for 1 additional month and receive a lump sum of $5,000.
Blue Diamond Bonus Payout. Achieve Blue Diamond and maintain for 2 months and receive a lump sum of $25,000.
Purple Diamond Bonus Payout. Achieve Purple Diamond and maintain for 2 months and receive a lump sum of $100,000.
Double Red Diamond Payout. Achieve Double Red Diamond and maintain for 2 months and receive a lump sum of $500,000.

Actually it’s kind of motivating to think about getting a Double Red Diamond Rank bonus and getting a nice lump sum of $500,000 in your next distributor check.

Humm…..

Now what are the odds that they plugged this bonus in to attract those top level networkers that gave them that needed boost in growth a few years ago.

Who says you can’t buy talent!

Actually MonaVie at their peak also tried this kind of perk to attract top talent and it did work for them for a while.

As far as distributor support goes, Kyani hosts national conventions every year and smaller conference calls in different cities on a quarterly basis. The only downside is that since Kyani is a relatively new company, you may not be given much local support. And if you’re thinking of opening up a new town, then you may probably not benefit from having weekly meetings led by local leaders to assist you in giving live presentation. But of course that’s the flip side of the MLM coin, if you join a huge company that already has everything in place then the upside growth potential is usually not as good.

Also since in my opinion most of the traditional MLM face to face marketing approaches should be in the museums where they belong, any distributor courting success in today’s market should be using online marketing approaches to generate their leads and do presentations.

What are the future prospects for Kyani?

Well MLM crystal balls are all a little cloudy when it comes to charting the future success course of any company in the Network Marketing industry, and of course it’s the same when looking at Kyani.

Health and nutritional are of course huge trillion dollar markets and the superjuices have carved out a big niche in that arena, however I am not so sure but that maybe the superjuice success train may have run its course. There have been so many MLM companies running after that market in the last few years, that your average network marketing distributor tends to run the other way when they hear the word “Superjuice”.

However who knows, this one could be the next billion dollar hyper-growth success monster that generates the next legendary $900,000 a month commission checks.

The Kyani products do have validity and of course that sexy “Alaskan” motif, and the compensation plan is already churning out some big commissions, so if you like what you see go for it.

Kyani presents a legitimate business opportunity the details of which are clearly outlined in their professional-looking website and brochures. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a legitimate MLM company is equivalent to success on your part. Unless you are able to convince other people about the worth of Kyani products and generate a lot of leads, you’ll merely end up at home keeping company with all your bottles of superjuice.

Success in Kyani or any MLM business model hinges on your ability to structure it as a real business and to have a high volume lead generation system in place so you can look beyond just your friends and family for your success.

So if you are ready to take your business and income to the next level you need to learn how to use the internet to leverage your business. Today there are hundreds of millions of people online and many are probably looking for a business just like yours, imagine for a moment just being able to reach out an tap just the smallest fraction of that huge traffic and bring it to your business.

Exciting thought isn’t it?

The good news is that you can learn how to use the internet as a tool and generate tons of leads to power your business by using powerful Online Marketing Systems that will teach you how to use the internet as a powerful resource for your business.

When I first started using online marketing systems I generated over 3000 leads, sponsored over 50 new reps and generated over $30,000 in affiliate commissions in just a few months. For a inside look at some of these powerful marketing strategies check out my free Video Training Bootcamp “

2012-1

My Video Talk Review – MLM Tech Disaster Or The Next Big Thing?

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So what’s the deal with “My Video Talk” ? I mean we all know that online video is a hot growth area on the internet right?

If you doubt that video as a medium for personal expression is here to stay just take a moment and do a quick review of the growth and reach of Youtube by doing a quick Google search for “youtube growth stats”.

You will find that the sheer number of people doing videos and exposing their content, (and sometimes various body parts we would rather not see), to the world is mind boggling.

Well I guess some people have no shame, and of course some people have no shame and also no talent.

So yes of course video is a big deal on the internet, but that is not the issue here.

The issue and the reason I sat down to do a network marketing company review is to take a look at whether or not online video and video delivery systems are a viable product for an MLM company, and if you should even waste your time trying to build a network marketing empire by jumping on board the latest and greatest MLM company to jump on the bandwagon with a “killer no miss” (of course everyone thinks their product fits in this category) video product.

Enter “My Video Talk” one of the latest to jump on the MLM Video bandwagon.

My Video Talk is based in Northern California. It was founded in April 2004 to provide cutting-edge internet communication technologies. Currently, it is available globally with its presence felt in several countries.

My Video Talk offers five products designed to target and cater to your every online video need. These products include customized e-mail video messages, on-demand video web channels, and live video streaming of broadcasts and meetings.

My Video Talk boasts of products that are state-of-the-art and seem to be user friendly. Its website leaves you with the impression that its products are so simple that even Internet dummies can use them.

However it also has products geared for complex businesses that need extensive marketing and communication support. This makes My Video Talk useful to individuals, small businesses, and enterprise markets. So they have tried to make their product appealing to both professional and amateur entrepreneurs.

So with all of these great looking product features, it’s easy to see how My Video Talk gives the impression that it should be very marketable.

So now they throw in the multi-level marketing platform and it seems with the current popularity of video that My Video Talk success should be a no-brainer, a please drive me to the bank to cash my check type of success model.

But is it?

Humm….. yes that’s the million dollar question.

Unlike many other multi-level marketing systems that only generate income from fees paid by the sale of physical products or lotions and potions, My Video Talk provides an intangible service related product to a marketplace that appears at least to hunger for such things. But the question remains.

How can you achieve financial success with My Video Talk, and is it sustainable?

We need to understand a few things before we can discuss the success potential of a product or a system. First understand that no matter how sexy a Network Marketing product may be or how marketable it may seem, that is not where you make the money in the world of MLM.

You can have the newest MLM on the street with hottest product in the world, but if you spend your time out trying to sell the product you are not going to make those $10,000 a month checks you have been hoping for.

Network marketing is not a retail based business model, and if you try to treat it as such and achieve success by selling the product you will probably win retail excellence awards from the company but you will never make the big money, because there is no leverage in retail MLM sales.

Listen closely now….. it’s not about selling the product!

MLM as a business model is much more closely aligned to the wholesale buyer’s network business model, like a Costco.

Nobody joins Costco to buy products at wholesale and sell them in their store at retail, we all join and pay the membership fee just so we can get them cheaper. It is in fact, a wholesale buyers network that exists on self consumption.

Network marketing is exactly the same ballgame.

OK Marc, so then what’s the point of a hot sexy product?

Well to attract other distributors of course! The hotter the market segment and the sexier the product the more distributors you will be able to get to jump on the bandwagon.

So with a broad product mix that the average persons sees the value in, the more people who will enroll knowing that the products should be a cake walk to sell but then in fact they never do sell any, they just use them themselves.

So the true keys to MLM success are…………

Have a sexy product that everyone sees the value in, and
They better be exciting enough that your distributors keep using them and stay on autoship or your income will become a revolving door.

MLM givith and MLM taketh away!

My Video Talk Products

My Video Talk offers powerful tools that can be used by businesses, so this is a big plus over products that just target the consumer sector. They include a video email system, a Webinar program, a video channel offering, the Webshow tool, and the Boardroom conferencing platform. These communications tools enable anyone to create web shows, presentations, and their very own Internet programming network, while also using e-mail that contains video.

Anyone familiar with the current slate of available technology solutions would know how exciting looking this bundle of tools can be. Together, they offer marketers and businesses the necessary tools to communicate their online marketing messages to a wide range of people in the most powerful manner possible, i.e. video.

This is cutting-edge technology that of course every business should be using, and distributors of course can use the same tools to build and maintain communication with their downline.

My Video Talk Compensation Plan

My Video Talk offers compensation plan opportunities based on a Hybrid-Binary type compensation plan. Distributors can expect to earn money from the sale of these technology products and apart from retail product sales, distributors can also derive income from fast-start bonuses for bringing in new customers, team commissions and various team-building and executive bonuses. Together, these income opportunities can enable anyone who is committed to the system to establish a profitable income stream.

My Video Talk also offers other compensation bonuses. Distributors get the opportunity to earn a BMW or Mercedes Benz vehicle. In addition, distributors can qualify for a variety of other rewards from My Video Talk. They can be rewarded with paid vacations to exotic locales and funding to open an office space

Here is a quick overview of the compensation plan income streams:

My Video Talk Fast Start Bonuses. A distributor can earn U.S. $100.00 Fast Start Bonus on the sales volume generated by the personal sales of the Getting Started Product Packages. There is no limit on the amount of Fast Start Bonuses you can earn, the more you sponsor, the more you make.

My Video Talk Weekly Team Commissions. Once a distributor becomes a Team Builder, he becomes eligible to earn weekly team commissions. A Team Builder needs to build two sales teams and each time one team generates 720 weekly sales volume and the other 360 weekly sales volume, the Team Builder earns a commission cycle. He earns U.S. $100.00 in team commissions with an additional of up to U.S. $50.00 global rewards check match bonus.

My Video Talk Monthly Binary Matrix. This enables distributors to earn monthly residual income simultaneous to building weekly bonus checks. Distributors get paid repeatedly for something they’ve already done. A distributor can achieve a cycle bonus of U.S. $25.00 per cycle with a 3:6 cycle ratio for his Binary Monthly Matrix.

The My Video Talk MVT Bimmer / Benz Club. This is a Car Club Bonus Program available to those with rank of executive or above who meet the company’s requirements for availing of this program.

My Video Talk Presidents Weekly Club. This is a special leadership recognition program which gives qualified distributors a new rank or title which comes with a corresponding bonus.

My Video Talk Retail Commissions. Distributors can earn a 20% commission on the first month sale of every a la carte retail product package sold in his retail shopping portal.

My Video Talk Team Builder Bonuses. This U.S. $25.00 bonus is paid on the sales volume generated by selling the My Video Talk Super Stream Studio Package.

My Video Talk Executive Leadership Matrix Bonus. This U.S. $200.00 executive bonus is based on the sales of My Video Talk Super Stream Studio Package. This is paid as soon as an executive helps two personally sponsored representatives of his left and right sales teams achieve Team Builder status.

My Video Talk Global Rewards Check Match Bonuses. This is available to distributors who achieve commission cycle. They will receive a reward check match bonus of up to 50% in addition to the cycle payout.

My Video Talk Sales Office Program. The company helps distributors set up their area team office by providing them with administrative and financial support, means to increase sales, trainings, and weekly presentations.

So what’s the bottom line here Marc? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Well there are a number of ways to look at this, one is as an affiliate tool for a marketer, and the other is as a standard MLM business opportunity.

As an affiliate marketing product I think this has some merit. Video as we know is a powerful marketing tool and is here to stay for the foreseeable future and there are lots of people who market on the internet and who could use this to improve their marketing and more importantly sell to other aspiring marketers as a straight up affiliate product. A $100 commission on a $300 or $429 startup video package is not bad as far as affiliate commissions go. I mean if you can use the products anyway you might as well make some money off of marketing it to your list right?

If we look at My Video Talk as a standard MLM business opportunity I am not sure it has as much potential. Now keep in mind that since I am a big fan of Top Tier MLM (companies like Wealthmasters or Family IQ) as opposed to Standard MLM programs, I am prejudiced anyway, but the My Video Talk compensation plan is a pretty standard Binary pay plan, so no surprises there, and then there is the nasty problem of Technology products overall.

In standard MLM’s there are several different types of product groupings and each has its own unique growth and attrition pattern, which of course affects your income.

People love technology products, and so the initial growth pattern of these companies tend to be quite good, but then of course once the love affair is over the down hill slide of tech companies can be just as extreme.

Look we live in a high speed tech world and we tend to get bored easily. Think about your last smart phone or computer. The day you bought it your thought was “wow this is incredible” but then a month later when an even better smart phone hit the market the love affair started to wane.

And when love dies how far away is divorce?

Now don’t get me wrong here, My Video Talk could be the next billion dollar player in the market, or not?

The challenge for companies like My Video Talk of course is to keep the new product introductions and the even newer technology so fresh that you are always in the excitement phase.

You have to make your own decision here, but at a minimum, it looks like a great tool to enhance your marketing and past that who knows?

The bottom line is of course that no matter what MLM you build you need to power your success with a lot of leads rather than relying on the remote chance that you will find a killer producer in your warm market or lurking around the grocery store. The best way to do that in today’s market is to learn how to use the internet to leverage your business and generate leads.

Want to learn how I generated over 3000 leads, sponsored over 50 new reps and generated over $30,000 in affiliate commissions in just my first 5 months after learning how to generate MLM leads online? For a inside look at some of these powerful lead generation strategies check out

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2012-1

Norwex Review – MLM Cleaning Products? Shades of Amway Save Me!

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Norwex, is a Norwegian MLM company that touts its miracle cleaning products through a network of independent distributors, is still growing and to date shows no signs of slowing down.

The company was founded in 1994 in Norway, and it has gained customers and consumers around the world, becoming popular for its unique cleaning and personal care products that have made it a household name in some communities.

Viking marketing from Norway to North America

First founded in Norway, Norwex has accumulated a following of more than 20,000 distributors, and expanded into multiple international markets including North America in 1999.

Now let’s face it, cleaning products don’t have a lot of sex appeal, but somehow these cleaning products whose main product promo seem to be that they both safe and effective, seem to have struck a cord with some in the home business industry.

MLM cleaning rags, what’s next?

Now Norwex products are not what you would expect from a MLM cleaning products company, the main thrust of the product line are the Norwex “Microfiber Cleaning Products”, which are according to the company website, an almost magical product that goes beyond “surface clean” with the innovative use of silver particles integrated into synthetic microfiber cloth.

Norwex recommends that you use the Microfiber cleaning cloths and clean using “water only” and that those silver microfibers will do a better and safer job without any chemical cleaners.

Shades of the MLM dark past, it almost sounds like the ill-fated “Laundry Ball” that was touted by an MLM company that industry legend Jim Fobair started years ago.

In that company the “laundry ball” was supposed to take the place of laundry detergent through the clever use of magnets to create an electro-static charge in the water, aligning the molecules and causing the dirt to just fall out.

Actually Norwex has one of these also, which they appropriately call a “Magnet Ball”.

Oh well I always liked the idea even through it was never really clear that it actually worked.

The second branch of the Norwex product line is comprised of Organic Personal Care Products, and of course in the personal care line they also have these silver microfiber towels and washcloths etc.

Norwex Products – Clean Your House Then Clean Your Face!

Now with the personal care products, Norwex goes beyond the cleaning rags and offers soaps and shampoo products that carry the organic and safe product focus. The literature states that they offer a modern approach to the personal care regimen that involves “deep cleaning” of the skin and that attempts to leave customers as clean as the Norwex cleaning products may leave their houses.

Norwex cleaning up after accusations

Norwex recently got the negative spotlight focused on them when the company found itself being accused of propagating a large scale scam with their products and marketing approaches. According to the accusations, Norwex was not actually selling products, but instead just sellingstarter kits for $200 dollars.

Good grief you regulators, grow up! That’s a lame claim from the 1960’s before people ever understood MLM

Norwex made the regulators happy when the company clarified that actual products were indeed being sold, and that these products were complimented with a free starter kit to enhance the sale of the products and the buyers experience in using them.

The company also said that these kits were used – alongside real products, not instead of them – to motivate sellers toward action, and to inspire them towards the types of sales that Norwex wishes for anyone venturing forward with the company. The kits were used to help foster a team attitude among sellers, and to continue growing the Norwex brand.

The company said that with these starter kits, the distributor is able to gain credibility and knowledge of the products, and they have the chance to endorse the products on their own before selling them to others. These also help the distributors to maintain their distributor status every three months, which they must do by earning at least $250 over this period.

Sounds like a sensible Norwegian way to respond. Take that your regulators!

So the big question, can you actually make money with Norwex?

Now the Norwex business model is not exactly mainstream. It is actually a throwback to the old days of the Network Marketing home party plans. However even in today’s high tech market where recruiting is done worldwide without ever meeting your prospect except to maybe view them on Skype, the home party plan is still alive and well.

Norwex Compensation Plan

Norwex Distributors can make up to a 35% commission for product sales and distributors can also earn free products once they have sponsored another distributor who sells at least $2,000 worth of products in their first 90 days. There are also bonus programs for the business builders.

Future prospects?

Well from all appearances the company is solid, I mean it’s been around for over 18 years, and the product niche (home cleaning products) is huge and the product is unique (Silver microfibers), so I would have to say they are a pretty safe bet for a home business.

Now keep in mind that distributor cultures vary dramatically from company to company and to succeed in Norwex I am sure your upline is pretty much going to have you do the home party plan approach.

Now although I am not a personal fan of the home party plan approach to network marketing, there are a number of companies that have used it successfully over the years and many of the distributors really like the personal nature of this type of sales.

Keep in mind however that your warm market list is only going to take you so far and when you have blasted through that, unless you learn some other marketing strategies to power your Norwex business and generate new leads you are going to be out of gas.

So if your goal is to generate a big income with a company like Norwex, you are going to have to have to have a powerful marketing strategy to sponsor a lot of reps. The bottom line is of course that no matter what MLM you build you need to power your success with a lot of leads rather than relying on the remote chance that you will find a killer producer in your warm market or lurking around the grocery store.

The best way to do that in today’s market is to learn how to use the internet to leverage your business and generate leads. There are several very good MLM online marketing systems such as My Lead System Pro that can give you the boost you need to map your course to top earner status.

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2011-11

Empower Network Review – Is Empower A Sure Bet Money Flood Or Internet Disaster?

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Empower Network, hum….

So the question is, can Empower Network be the “Next Big Thing”?

Well maybe or maybe not.

So before I go on to answer that burning question I guess I should digress here and give you a quick overview of exactly what the Empower Network actually is, and what it is not.

Empower Network is the brainchild of internet marketers David Wood and David Sharpe who in search of a different and unique business model ended up combining aspects of affiliate marketing, major product launch, greed, fear of loss, and a quasi MLM type commission that employs multiple levels within its structure but passes income upline using a comp plan variation borrowed from direct sales models known a pass up system.

Confused yet?

Well there is more, and by the way what is Empower Network actually selling? Is there actually a product here or is this just another variation of a pyramid money transfer system?

Wow! Wash my mouth out with soap! I can’t even believe those words came out of my mouth!

Look I am not a MLM hater, I have been in the MLM industry for over 25 years and have been a 7 figure earner in that industry for many years and I love the industry.

But there is also the dark underbelly of pure scam that hovers on the edge of the home based business industry, and there are always people who find some new way to push the envelope with a new product or business model and it kind of leaves you scratching your head trying to decide what side of the fence a new gangbuster deal falls on.

That’s kind of where I was when I looked at Empower Network.

On its surface Empower Network is a pure money deal, and like it or not money deals attract people. I mean we are all in business to make money right?

Then there is the “wave effect” in marketing where some new program or “new great thing” hits the marketplace and the early adopters all jump on board and then just because a lot of people are joining other people join just so they are not left behind.

The thought is Wow! Everyone else is doing it so I better get on board!

But is there actually more to Empower Network than just a shell that allows you to make money by enrolling others who enroll others who enroll others and then sit at the beach while the automated pass up system deposits money to your merchant account?

Well sort of.

The Empower Network System

So let me break it down for you in a form that’s easy to understand, however it still may be hard to categorize Empower Network since this is an entirely new business model.

Empower Network is an affiliate product launch that has at its core 3 products.

The core product is a self replicating WordPress blog that is already optimized for SEO (search engine optimization), so that when you write blog posts the search engines have a better chance of finding your content and ranking you on Google or the other search engines.

Now optimizing a WordPress blog for SEO is not that hard if you know what you are doing but for those who do not, Empower Network shortcuts the technology learning curve pretty dramatically so this is a good thing.

This part of the program will cost you a basic membership fee of $25 per month.

The next Empower Network product is an online training system called the “Inner Circle” that contains several recorded trainings by David Sharp and David Wood covering subjects such as: Down & Dirty Marketing Secrets, Hypnotic Selling Secrets, How to close 95% of your prospects, and other online success trainings.

Now this part of the program will cost you $100 per month on top of the $25 per month you are already paying.

So is the “Inner Circle” actually worth what you pay for it?

Now just to keep it in perspective you should keep in mind that these guys know their stuff. David Wood and David Sharp are both very accomplished internet marketers. David Wood in particular even though my competitive nature makes it hard to admit, is probably one of the most talented markers working online today.

Also I believe the intent of the Empower Network founders is to keep adding to this online library by sharing the success and strategies of other successful members using the system so the curriculum should grow.

The next product in the system is the “Costa Rica Intensive” training. This is a high def recording of a live 2 day training intensive that David Wood recently did in Costa Rica where about a dozen people paid $3000 each to get training from David Wood on how to create the same type of magic in the online market as he does.

This Empower Network product will cost you a one time payment of $500.

The Empower Network Compensation Plan

Now all major product launches in the world of internet marketing share pretty much the same characteristics, they are all “How to” info products or trainings where the promoter is basically telling you “I have made millions online using this system or approach and if you pay me I will show you exactly how I did it”

The idea here of course is that if you buy the training and study the material you can do the same thing they do and of course have the same financial success.

Now this is a valid market, and it has been done in business just about forever and people will in fact pay big money for key information especially if they see it as a missing link to their financial success or if they just want a step by step “how to” guide rather than trying to figure it out themselves.

I have never had a problem with paying for training, specific business models, or coaching. Heck in my last conventional business I paid over $35,000 for a license fee and 3 day training intensive on how to setup a successful banking service company.

Now the online marketing world has caught on to this model and there are lots of people out there selling training products, heck I do it myself.

Also the stakes are much higher with the internet mixed in. I mean there are probably over 1.8 billion people online today and if you can tap even the smallest fraction of that traffic and provide a product they want you can make millions with just your laptop.

Today there are many talented marketers who have done just that, and then they turn around package that system into a training, and sell it in mass generating additional millions in profit.

So is David Wood in that same league?

Humm..

well if he is not there yet, he is pretty close.

However, his Empower Network training is not a specific approach but rather a money making system wrapped around some general core training products that can teach you general online marketing success principals.

The Empower Network Compensation Plan

This is actually what is attracting all the attention. When you enroll as a Empower Network member, you get a replicated sales presentation funnel that you can then send your prospects to.

When those prospects take the tour and listen to David Wood and David Sharpe’s presentation, they are then offered the chance to buy the monthly membership to the blogging platform for $25 a month. If they purchase that, then the up-sell process begins and they are next offered the opportunity to buy in at the next level, the “Inner Circle” training for an additional $100 per month.

If they purchase that, then there is yet another up-sell that offers them the Costa Rica training intensive for a one time fee of $500.

The profit potential on the Empower Network system is actually pretty amazing since for every qualified member that buys into your system you could be making $125 a month in re-occurring commissions and also a nice $500 one time bonus commission.

Now the presentation constantly stresses the fact that you will be receiving 100% commissions on all your sales, but as the up-sell makes very clear, to receive commissions on your $25 orders you must of course be active on the $25 membership, and if you want to receive the $100 re-occurring commissions you must be also active at that level or the sale your system makes for you will roll up to your sponsor. The same also goes with the $500 product.

So first the sales presentation appeals to your money making side by offering you a 100% commission, (OK let’s be honest here and just call it greed), then the fear of loss clicks in when you realize that if you don’t upgrade to the higher levels you are going to miss those commissions.

Now for the leverage…

There is another huge greed kicker here since when you enroll people in your system, and then they bring customers in, every 2^nd , 4^th 6^th member they enroll, and then every 5^th one after that ends up passing up to you and you receive the 100% commissions on those sales also.

This pass-up keeps going since the person that you passed up will in turn pass-up their 2^nd, 4ht, and 6^th sale etc, this pass-up structure actually goes down to infinity so the income potential is pretty huge if you sponsor a lot of people and they do the same.

So in effect you get the leverage of an MLM style comp plan with an affiliate “info product”.

Can we say Wow!…..

Join The Empower Network Now! > Join Now!

Now of course if you have ever sat through a MLM presentation before and watched a pro draw the circles on a white board and then run the famous arithmetic progression….

…. So if you get 2, and they get 2, and so on…. you magically have 3125 people in your group in just a few months.

That’s if your team members actually sponsor other people, and so on.

Yes of course the potential with a multi level comp plan is staggering, which is what draws so many opportunity seekers into the industry every year, but of course in practice things usually don’t progress exactly the same as in the example.

This is the same hypnotic power that the Empower Network comp plan has.

So OK Marc……get to the point, is this a thumbs up or thumbs down deal?

Well I have to say there are things I like about it and things I don’t.

Let’s start with the don’t likes.

I don’t like the Empower Network introduction video presentation very much. I see many online marketers today that when selling their product, they somehow feel the need to oversell and then take way to long getting to the point, and David Sharpe is very guilty of this.

Sales overkill just annoys me, but of course the Empower Network system is working and they generated over $500,000 in sales in just the first 10 days, so probably just ignore that comment.

I also don’t like the way they keep referring to the fact that you get 100% commissions but then seem to ignore the fact that if you are passing up every 2^nd, 4^th, 6^th etc that is not really 100% its actually more like 50% on the first 6 and then 80% thereafter.

Now of course you do receive 100% on the commissions you actually are qualified to receive but not on all your traffic or generated sales.

Also on the flip side you do receive the benefit of those pass-ups also and if you get a lot of people going the income effect it generates can be huge.

Then there is the avoidance of the real reason they developed the Empower Network system, which is of course to make money. The presentation and marketing copy state that it’s kind of a giving back thing, and they just want to help people, but come on guys, if you are at the top of this …

I hate to say the word, pyramid sales structure and you personally sponsored several hundred top online marketers (which you did), then there is a shit load of money you are making with those pass-ups from a very large front line of members that you brought in.

Now to coin a David Wood phrase from his “NLP” style sales structuring , …….“and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that”….. but lets be a little more transparent about it, it’s a brilliant idea and there is nothing wrong with making money.

OK so I got that off my chest so now on to the things I like.

Look it’s a “Wave Effect” deal and whether you approve or not, lots of money is made in them, so either take a flyer and surf the wave or get your binoculars and watch it recede into the distance while you think about all the money you could have made.

It’s an ambitious, aggressive, very creative business model and kudos to you guys for bringing it off.

In the end I can’t tell you whether or not this deal has legs or how long it will last, but wave effect deals have a way of becoming viral and I am sure there will be some huge money made with Empower Network even in the short term.

Keep in mind that income potential aside, there is actually a real product here. So if you are having trouble making the “buy” decision just based on “can I make a ton of money if I invest $625 to buy all the levels”, then take a look at the Empower Network training and tools and decide if what you are buying actually is worth the money.

In the end the reason I bought, yes that’s right I am also on that wave, was because I have a feeling that quite a bit of money can be made with this product system and at a minimum I was more than willing to pay $625 to get my hands on 10 hours of David Woods “Costa Rica Intensive” training.

Look I know David personally, and my competitive nature aside, they guy is good, so I was happy to be able to get my hands on that training material, and of course I have no doubt that a lot of other people will buy it also.

Now keep in mind that the most successful online business model is to develop multiple streams of income, so even if you are excited about this and join, I would not drop your other business marketing efforts such as your primary MLM to focus all you attention here.

Focus on the Empower Network for what it actually is, a really great affiliate income stream that could make you a lot of money.

Now one final note here, if you have never been successful generating leads online before, Empower Network is not your magic solution. It is simply a product with a lot more sex appeal than most others and that makes it much easier to sell.

To make the big money with Empower Network you will still actually have to learn some quick and easy online marketing strategies like PPC or Banner advertising like I train my group in My Lead System Pro to use, or utilize some of my favorite offline strategies such as “Voice Broadcasting” and using tools such as iBuzzPro to push some aggressive lead traffic to people already in the MLM industry.

If you want to generate leads quickly and you are not quite ready to learn online marketing approaches, Voice Broadcasting is a quick and easy “low tech” way to get into action and start generating leads within 24 hours.

There are many good offline strategies that I have used for years to drive big traffic, you just need a little coaching on how to implement them. Before I started online marketing I was sponsoring well over 10 new reps a month just using a unique voice broadcasting approach with some specialized scripts.

Now the Empower Network product is ideal to target people in the MLM industry since it can provide them with a much quicker cash flow than their traditional standard MLM can.

Join Marc Barrett’s Empower Network Team and get access to his powerful online lead generation strategies and also his Voice Broadcast Lead Generation training and have leads by tomorrow

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2011-10

Ambit Energy Review – Ambit Energy Scam Complaints Surface – Is Ambit Energy Legit?

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The Ambit Energy scam? I saw this online the other day when I was doing some MLM company research. I had run into Ambit in the past and Ambit Energy seemed to be a pretty strong MLM in a unique billion dollar market that seemed pretty squeaky clean but there it was, someone referring to it as the Ambit Energy scam. So what’s up with that?

That of course is the question of the hour and why I sat down to do an in depth critical review of this new network marketing company that is taking a run at the energy deregulation market in the US, but as with any successful network marketing company they are starting to get some heat (no pun intended) and are generating a few Ambit Energy Scam Complaints.

You know there is so much negativity floating around our world on a daily basis that I work to keep my head straight by trying to only focus on the positive, however over the last few years I had run across a few newbies to the world of MLM that were either totally excited about Ambit or they were angrily calling it the Ambit Energy scam.

Now as you can probably imagine, there are so many new MLM companies that enter the market each year, and there are so many that die off so quickly that I usually hold off at least 20 minutes or so before I take to time to do an in-depth critical review, but since Ambit Energy has been around since 2006 I knew it was time.

First let’s get the get the details out of the way so we can dig into the really interesting stuff like “business model” product viability.

Ambit Energy

Ambit Energy is based in Dallas, Texas and is the brainchild of the founders, Jere Thompson and Chris Chambless and according to the company website, …”Ambit Energy was founded in early 2006 at a Potbelly’s restaurant in Addison, Texas over a couple of turkey sandwiches”.

Now since Ambit Energy was doing something over $325 million in revenue only 3 years later, I now know exactly where to go when I am going to start my next company “Potbelly’s Restaurant”, it must be good luck.

Ambit Products

Ambit has decided to target a slightly tricky market that several other MLM companies have not done too well with, energy deregulation.

Ambit’s products are pretty simple actually, electricity and natural gas.

The company’s marketing concept is also pretty straight forward, you are already spending money for basic utilities, why not just buy them from us and save money?

Seems pretty simple so why not?

I theory it’s a good concept so it seems like is should work like gangbusters right? Well it’s that simple business model that has attracted droves of distributors over the last few years but as many MLM hopefuls soon learn, what seems simple in concept can me a little more difficult in actual practice.

I can see how a new distributor can think it’s going to be a pretty easy process to get all their friends and neighbors to switch their utilities but when it turns out not to be quite that easy then the want to brand Ambit Energy as a scam.

So why wouldn’t everybody just switch? Well, probably 2 reasons, resistance to change and not a big enough savings to make it a priority.

It’s kind of like when phone service was deregulated years ago, it was exciting for a while but then you got so tired of dozens of companies pitching you on it, it was overload and you no longer wanted to hear about it anymore no matter what the savings.

Now it looks as if Ambit Energy is trying to overcome some of this customer reluctance by offering new customers a bonus giveaway. The currently offer a travel voucher good for a FREE 3-Day/2-Night stay for two at a 3-Star hotel at one of 25 exciting destinations nationwide.

Wow, change your utilities and go on vacation!

Now I see this as a good marketing move, paying or bribing your customers actually works if the offer is strong enough. Cell phone companies have been doing this for years with free or discounted cell phone giveaways and I have even recently seen banks actually offering to pay you $100+ in cash to open a new account.

The Ambit Energy Scam??

Now since some people found that its a little harder than they thought to sign up customers and build the business, and this is probably where the company negativity chimes in with people angrily calling it the Ambit Energy scam.

Look any business requires work and diligence but even with a good product its not a cakewalk, you just have to learn the best ways to do it.

One limitation on the Ambit product side you should be aware of is that Ambit’s market is limited to just a few states. They currently can only offer service in Texas, New York, Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Now of course you can sign up if you are in other states but it’s going to be kind of hard to get your required customer base so that you can collect commissions.

Ambit Energy Compensation Plan

The company uses a type of MLM unilevel compensation program that pays a Fast Start bonus when you sign someone up for the basic $429 new distributor package, and the also pays bonuses on two other types of production, new distributor signups in your group and customer product usage over-rides.

The company compensation plan literature shows that you are paid as deep as the legs go once you reach a certain rank or level of success.

Now to qualify for commissions you pretty much have to get customers which of course is good for the company but can be annoying for distributors.

If you are a major business builder in the network marketing industry you pretty much know it’s not about selling the product, it’s about selling the opportunity and building a team. I have seen this acquire customers tactic before in MLM companies who market products where they pretty much have to get customers to power the long term company cash flow such as telecom or technology. Big Planet, a MLM technology division of NuSkin used this same approach. However this focus on customer acquisition I am sure has kept some big players away, who just are not into being retailers.

So should you be swayed by Ambit Energy scam complaints or is Ambit Energy just a squeaky clean MLM with a unique product?

Well form my research, there is no Ambit energy scam and from all appearances looks to be a very good company. They are also a member of the Direct Selling Association or DSA and it takes at least 2 years and a company review by the DSA before they will even let you join.

So it looks like they pass the test, so why are angry distributors referring to it as the Ambit Energy scam?

Well many times the wealth building aspects of the network marketing business is just a tiny bit oversold.

Did I say “tiny bit”?

Well let’s be honest, the get rich quick angle has always been there in MLM. Some people just oversell how quickly you can achieve success and the $10,000 checks.

So when people enter the MLM business and figure they are going to be rich and famous in 60 days and then suddenly there realize how its really work, and its going to take time, all of a sudden its no longer the greatest deal in the universe, its a scam, and that’s probably where the Ambit Energy scam came from.

Now the distributors are not the only ones who over inflate how easy the business is, MLM companies are also at fault since they always showcase examples of MLM success from within the ranks and usually pick people who have had rapid success in just a few months.

Keep in mind that in a Standard MLM business model, success takes time, and the average time to build a $10,000 a month income stream is probably 12 to 18 months or more.

Now of course there are other business models that get you to the money quicker such as Top Tier MLM but keep in mind, “there is no free lunch” (that’s what they taught me in economics in college). MLM is a business and a very high paying one so it’s worth the time to master it an build it.

Now even though most MLM’s today still teach some variation on old school MLM marketing approaches such as making a list of friends and family or chasing people down in grocery stores, I have always found success comes much quicker and with less aggravation if you learn some simple marketing approaches and build your lead flow up so you are not constantly chasing luke warm prospects around.

Now since Ambit’s services are just in a few states it’s even more important to use approaches such as online marketing to be able to specifically target just the market you are after.

Exciting thought isn’t it?

2011-10

Xocai MLM Company Review – Sweet Deal Or Major Dead End?

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A recent entry to the MLM industry Xocai is betting that the sweet tooth consumers have for chocolate products when combined with financial opportunity will be the killer one – two punch that drives the company to MLM mega growth.

Now over the years I have been in MLM I have seen just about every type of product from 3-d cameras to panty hose promoted, but chocolate?

The business opportunity from Xocai products is all about a popular product, chocolate. This chocolate is promoted as extremely high in healthy antioxidants, and it is marketed through an MLM program. Here are things of interest about the program and the corporation.

Xocai – The Company

Founded in 2004 MXI Corporation manufactures and markets the Xocai products. The President and co-founder of the corporation is Jeanette Brooks. Jeanette has a successful history with other corporations, as well as an extensive teaching education. She has founded Pure De-Lite Products, Yurika Foods, and Phoenix International Corporation.

The CEO and co-founder of Xocai is Andrew Brooks. He has a Masters in Business Administration and in Spanish. His interest in developing weight loss products for those with diabetes has been a driving force in his successful sales and marketing career. He is also the co-founder of Pure De-Lite Products.

Xocai Products

The Xocai chocolate products are promoted as a healthy chocolate product, but they are also enhanced with other beneficial ingredients such as blueberry and acai berry. These berries are very high in antioxidants, which help the body in many ways. As your cells work they use oxygen. However, this oxygen eventually breaks down and destroys cells before their time. Antioxidant compounds help to prevent cell break down and this good for the immune system and promotes weight loss.

It would stand to reason of course that Xocai chocolate products would be simple to sell. Almost everyone loves chocolate and customers can select solid chocolate items like squares and peanut butter cups. The company also offers chocolate packs and drinks. All products are free of preservatives and safe to eat.

Xocai Compensation Plan

Xocai uses a Hybrid-Binary type Network Marketing compensation plan. In today’s MLM market more and more companies are using this beefed up variation of the standard MLM binary comp plan.

A hybrid-binary is a blend of using a Binary and a Unilevel compensation plan at the same time for paying bonuses.

The binary part of the Xocai comp plan is pretty standard and allows you to only have 2 open positions below you so when you sponsor someone you place them in either the left or the right leg and then once those are filled the next people you sponsor will have to go downline from those you just sponsored giving the famous “binary spillover” effect that tends to attract a lot of MLM hopefuls to companies that use the binary payment structure.

Since you get the benefit of begin able to count all the volume that is below you even if you did not put it there, what could be better than that?

Of course the problem is that the new person who enrolls just to take advantage of being downline from a top recruiter soon learns that no matter how much volume is below them they get paid based only on the volume that they create in the other leg.

With the Xocai comp plan they pay 10% based on the volume in the lesser leg.

Now one of the other benefits of the binary pay plan that Xocai uses is that you can get paid as deep as the leg goes so you don’t’ have to worry about levels. However there is a limitation on volume in the Xocai comp plan, so you can only be paid on lesser leg volume up to $10,000 per week in earnings and then it cuts off.

Well I guess that’s not a bad weekly paycheck.

Keep in mind that there is also a “Cap” on commission payments in almost all binary programs.

Since in a binary such as Xocai uses, one of the huge benefits is the fact that in an active leg there can be a huge amount of spillover volume and that everybody in that leg can in fact tap and get paid on the same volume, companies have to limit how much they actually pay out or they can find themselves in certain circumstances actually having to pay out more than they earned.

So the binary “Cap” is designed to prevent this, and according to the compensation plan rules the company is obligated to only pay out a maximum percentage of the revenue and that’s it. Once they reach that cap in any given month they distributors only receive a pro-rated percentage of what they should have received based on the cap.

With Xocai the cap amount is 50% which is actually a little on the conservative side for a hybrid-binary, since many companies go as high as 65% to 70%.

Also I if you have your eyes on the big dollars with Xocai, you can get around the $10,000 per week issue on binary commissions because they allow you to enroll with 3 business centers and by placing those other 2 centers below you in your binary legs you can now build 4 total legs and you can generate up to $10,000 per week in commissions in each business center effectively tripling your Xocai income to a max of $30,000 a week.

That of course is a much better neighborhood.

The “Unilevel” part of the Xocai compensation plan kicks in when the people you have personally sponsored get busy and become an executive distributor, and then based on your own rank can earn a “commission check match” on what they earn in basic binary commissions.

This match is shown to be an 8% check match going down 7 levels of executives in the Xocai comp plan.

Confused yet?

Actually once you wrap your head around it you will find it does make sense and there can be a lot of money in a hybrid-binary plan as evidenced by companies like MonaVie and eXfuze, who used a very similar plan to power their success.

One of the top earners there Brig Hart, when MonaVie was at its peak, was generating by some accounts just short of a million dollars a month in income.

Now of course Xocai does offer some other bells and whistles such as fast start bonuses when you enroll someone new and they buy product and they also have bonus trips to exotic locations and a car program, just in case the money alone is not enough to motivate you.

Xocai Review Summary

Well it actually looks like a pretty “sweet” deal.

Sorry I just couldn’t resist it….. “Chocolate”, “sweet deal”, you get the idea.

So what does the future hold for a chocolate products MLM such as Xocai? Well there are pluses and minuses to all deals of course.

On the plus side, one of the biggest problems to holding on to your check once you have built an MLM is that is that if the 50%+ of distributors that will drop out don’t keep ordering the product then your check goes down and they only way to maintain it is aggressive long term sponsoring.

With a chocolate product Xocai actually may have some very good consumption longevity.

On the business side, of course all newer MLM’s such as Xocai tend to prosper since the network marketing industry has a insatiable appetite for “new” deals.

However once the glow has worn off a new deal, and its business as usual, it can be hard for a company to keep up the momentum and compete with the new arrivals in the MLM marketplace.

Now when the chocolate idea was brand new of course it was a mover, however I am not sure about long term.

Now of course we could say that for any company in MLM.

Xocai has done very well in the past and looks at least for the present to be continuing that growth.

2011-9

Wealth Masters International Review – Brilliant Idea or Skillful Illusion?

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Wealth masters International is a Top Tier MLM company that has created some huge waves in the industry, paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions and has been on the leading edge of what I would characterize as being one of the most successful companies in the Top Tier MLM industry.

However Wealth Masters has also been at the center of some big controversy and has made some major changes in its business model over the last 2 years so I wanted to take this opportunity to do an in depth company review on the company and see where they are today, and what prospects they have moving into the future.

I first ran across Wealth Masters International in late 2009 right after I had begun to immerse myself into the world of internet marketing and began to study and implement various online marketing strategies.

Now of course for anyone who has made the move into the world of online marketing they realize pretty quickly that it can initially be a somewhat confusing business model.

Well maybe confusing is not really the right word, actually it’s more like being transported into the same type of alternate realities we usually see featured on science fiction movies.

You know, the ones in which you go to sleep and then wake up only to realize that something is different, but then soon you realize as you do more investigation and go farther down the rabbit hole, that it’s an entirely different world that has always existed but somehow you never saw.

That’s kind of how it happened with me.

I had joined an online marketing and educational system called My Lead System Pro in mid 2009 and began studying online marketing strategies and was trying to get my arms around the very different marketing concepts of “Attraction Marketing”, “Funded Proposals”, and “Affiliate” income streams.

In an effort to understand and compare online marketing sales approaches I began looking at what successful people were already doing online by studying the lead capture pages I saw whenever I did online searches. That’s when I started running into a company called “Carbon Copy Pro”.

Now at first glance as Carbon Copy Pro seemed like just a slightly different version of an online marketing and educational system very much like My Lead System Pro, but there was something different about it.

There seemed to be a lot of secrecy about what they were actually selling, but apparently there were a lot of people selling whatever they had and making a lot of money doing it.

Humm…… a money flood, well that got my curiosity going!

So I investigated further and found that even through Carbon Copy Pro was in fact an online marketing system very similar to My Lead System Pro, that there were some critical differences.

My Lead System Pro was a completely generic system that you could use to promote any network marketing company and although Carbon Copy Pro claimed to be a completely generic system also, in reality almost everybody using Carbon Copy Pro was in fact marketing just one company called Wealth Masters International, and there were quite a few making over a million dollars a year marketing this company with some having reached those income levels in less than 2 years.

In fact from the video testimonials I saw, there were also apparently quite a few who had generated $10,000 to $20,000 a month marketing Wealth Masters in their first month in the business?

Now at this point they had my attention, but at the same time I had a hard time believing it.

Look I have been in the MLM industry for over 24 years and have in fact made 7 figures a year and I know what the standard MLM business model can do and what it can’t do, and generating a 5 figure income in your fist 30 days is usually something only the very rare individual can do.

Heck I could never do it!

I mean even if you are a killer recruiter, It takes time in a standard MLM like NuSkin (NuSkin Review) or MonaVie (MonaVie Review), to get the critical duplication going that going to give you access to the several thousand people you need in your downline to give you those $10,000 monthly checks we all dream of.

So how the heck were these people doing it?

Now as I dug further down that rabbit hole it got even stranger.

You know how you can buy a car, let say a nice black Audi A8 and you are feeling really special because no one else has one and then while you are driving home, you start seeing identical Black Audi A8’s everywhere. They were always there of course but you just weren’t tuned into them so you never noticed them.

That’s what happed with Wealth Masters, now that the rabbit was out of the hat, I started seeing them everywhere. Two of the owners of My Lead System Pro Brian Fanale and Norbert Orlewicz had previously made fortunes with Wealth Masters, Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring fame, ditto. In fact it seemed that most of the big names in the world of online marketing were also marketing Wealth Masters.

Darn, now I was starting to get mad……

It was like someone gave a money party and forgot to invite me!

Wealth Masters International it turned out was a Top Tier MLM that had been around since 2005.

Now I know a lot about the network marketing industry and the companies that flow in and out of it sometimes on a daily basis, so how was it that a major deal like this had escaped my attention?

Well to put it in sci-fi terms again ( I love that stuff) it’s like that alternate reality or more exactly it was like a parallel universe, existing right beside our own but somehow invisible.

You see Top Tier MLM’s like Wealth Masters or Family IQ (See Family IQ Review ) are not exactly a new business model in the MLM universe. I mean it’s been around for quite a while but it’s a different enough business model that it usually does not move in the same social circles as Standard MLM’s.

People that are successful in Top Tier MLM deals tend to stay in that industry and since there are not as many Top Tier MLM companies, distributors that are in the standard MLM market don’t tend to run into them, and if they do and they like what they see, they never seem to return.

So let me give you the hard facts on this Top Tier Network Marketing company.

Wealth Masters International

Wealth Masters is the brainchild of two partners Karl Bessey and Kip Herriage who formed the company in 2005.

Wealth Masters products all revolve around financial education.

There are three core products in the Wealth Masters International line, the M1 Program which sells for $1995, the M2 which costs $8995, and the M3 which goes for $13,995.

The M1 is pretty much the financial education the average person never receives in their life. It is a physical program that is actually mailed out to the distributor and is in Audio CD, DVD, Workbook, and includes an online training component through the company website.

The course covers subjects such as Developing a Millionaire Mindset, Understanding Money & Banking, Creating Your Blueprint For Success, The Fundamentals Of Wealth Acceleration, Breaking Down The Barriers To Success, Money Management, The BIG Investment Lie and Advanced Wealth Building Strategies.

The M2 Product is the next step in the educational process and is a 4 day seminar conducted twice a year called The M2 Wealth Conference and goes in depth on some of the subjects covered in the M1 program and also includes material on gaining access to precious metals opportunities, access to private real estate investment forclosure strategies, asset protection strategies, and more.

The M3 product is referred to as “The Private Wealth Group” and is a 5 day seminar conducted once a year at an international location. It covers many subjects such as Private Banking strategies, Insurance strategies, access to oil and gas exploration opportunities, IPO’s, a 1 year subscription to Kip Herriage’s private investment newsletter, and more.

Wealth Masters International Compensation Plan

The Wealth Masters International compensation plan includes a substantial front end commission paid directly to the selling consultant when a new rep enrolls and buys one of the Wealth Masters training products, a 5 tier MLM type back end residual compensation program that kicks in as you grow your group, and also a global profit sharing bonus pool.

Now since you must buy the products in order, they do offer discounts if you buy them at the same time rather than one at a time, so the actual entry levels when a new rep joins are usually at M1 level for $1995, Platinum level (M1+M2) for $9,995, or Platinum Plus level (M1+M2+M3) for $19,995.

So this of course is why they call companies like Wealth Masters International, “Top Tier MLM’s”.

The entry level is much higher than a Standard MLM but that’s part of the magic, since when you enroll someone at one of those levels you actually make almost a 50% commission!

The M1 actually pays a commission of $1000, the Platinum pays $4500, and when you enroll someone at the Platinum Plus level you earn $9000.

Ah-ha you say, now you see how new reps have the potential to generate $10,000++ in the first month or two.

Now even through a new rep or a “consultant”, as Wealth Masters calls them, has the ability to come in at any level and then bring in other reps at any other level, they are limited to receiving commissions based on the level they are at.

That means if a Wealth Masters consultant enters the business at M1 level, they are qualified to earn M1 level commissions which are $1000. However if they enroll a new consultant at the Platinum Plus level, they would have made $9000 if they were at that level but since they are at the M1 level, they will earn $1000 and the other $8000 will roll upline to the next qualified M3.

Good grief Charlie Brown!

Kind of brings a whole new dimension to the concept of “Rollup” doesn’t it?

Since this painful rollup can occur, new Wealth Masters consultants generally enter the business at the highest level they can afford, but also basing their decision on how much they want to earn per month.

Obviously if you are at the M1 level and want to make $10,000 your first month you are going to have to enroll 10 new consultants, but if you are at the M2 level you could achieve that by enrolling as few as two and if you were at the M3 level even one new consultant in your Wealth Masters business could get you almost to you goal of $10,000.

Now there are of course other elements to the Wealth Masters compensation plan, such as a 5 tier payout that can pay as much as $750 to the upline consultant as new consultants enter the business, and also the global profit sharing bonus pool.

Now of course with a Top Tier MLM business model because the numbers you are dealing with are much larger, for consultants who build a good size group the profit potential can be massive.

Now the average network marketing rep tends to look at big ticket programs like Wealth Masters and wonder how, if they have trouble enrolling people into their Standard MLM deal at $300 dollars, how in the world could you ever find someone who would be interested at $10,000 or $20,000?

I think the answer to this is in taking a look at how people who are looking at network marketing opportunities tend to look at the money they pay to enroll into a MLM program.

I think in today’s market Network Marketing is no longer a mystery, pretty much everyone knows that that there is money to be made in MLM, but they also know that it can be pretty difficult to achieve success, it can take quite a long time to build a big group, and that the number of people who actually get to the higher income levels of $10,000 or more are few and far between, and of course there are no guarantees.

In this case I think the prospect tends to look at the money they pay as an expense rather than an investment since there is no guarantee that it’s ever coming back and even if it does they know it’s going to take time.

Now of course people tend to watch what they spend so this is why enrolling someone into a network marketing business can be difficult even if the entry level is only a few hundred dollars.

Now on the other hand, if someone looks at a Top Tier MLM business like Wealth Masters that is going to cost them let’s say $10,000, but based on the compensation plan they can easily see a way to recoup their money by enrolling as few as 2 or 3 new reps, then they see an achievable goal that could be executed within a reasonable period of time.

I feel that in this case they tend to look at the money as an investment rather than an expense, and people can always find money for a really good investment.

Actually in the real world to start any business takes money and generally a lot of it. So to someone who would happily pay $50,000 or even $100,000 for a business that had the potential to earn them $300,000++ per year, a Top Tier MLM like Wealth Masters is a pretty good deal.

Also if you want a step by step business model that’s plug and play outside of the MLM business world, pretty much the most affordable national franchise you can buy today will cost about $35,000 for the license fee, not to mention build out and reserve cash requirements, and that’s for the right to spend the rest of our life working with teenagers in a fast food environment.

Now it may seem like the target market for an MLM business like Wealth Masters would have a pretty specialized target market, but in reality it’s no different than marketing a traditional MLM.

In today’s target rich environment there are no lack of prospects for the MLM world that the economy has dumped on their ears, i.e. business owners looking for a new plan A, corporate execs that have been dropped out of the economic food chain, Real Estate agents, mortgage brokers, and the list goes on and on.

Many times these prospects look at network marketing as an option but sometimes have a problem getting their arms around a business model where there seems to be no real clear business plan to get them to their financial needs.

Many need a real solution that can get them to $10,000 or more a month by next month not one that’s going to take the 18 months or 2 years that it can take in a Standard MLM.

Now even though there are many Wealth Masters consultants who use Old School MLM building strategies (See MLM Online vs Old School MLM) to build their business I would have to say that the really huge incomes of $50,000 to $100,000++ a month are generally being earned by consultants using online marketing approaches to tap into a much larger prospect pool and then use technology and automation to leverage their businesses.

This is the reason that so many of the top earning consultants in Wealth Masters were using online lead systems like My Lead System Pro and Carbon Copy Pro.

That landscape changed in November of 2010 when Carbon Copy Pro who had apparently been eyeing the huge success that Wealth Masters was generating with its top tier MLM product, seemingly decided that they wanted into that part of the business as well, and developed its own Top Tier MLM product.

Now even through Carbon Copy Pro and Wealth Masters International had no formal business partnership they nevertheless were pretty much in bed with each other and so their development of a competing product set off some huge shock waves in this marriage of convenience.

Needless to say Wealth Masters was slightly ticked off and ended up drawing the line in the sand telling Wealthmasters Consultants who were using the Carbon Copy Pro funnel system that they could not market a competing product and of course that ticked off Carbon Copy Pro and suddenly there was a huge split between the two companies that kind of left the members in the lurch.

Wealth Masters promptly setup its own in house online marketing system and Carbon Copy Pro went off to try to achieve fame and fortune marketing its own product.

Now some consultants were kind of stuck in limbo for a while but actually after it sorted out very little changed.

The bottom line here is that Carbon Copy Pro was simply a generic marketing, sales, and training funnel and although it was a very good one, there are many others in the market such as My Lead System Pro that are just as good if not better.

Since in the world of online lead generation the marketing approaches are typically generic and never brand or mention the MLM company, for the consultants who simply switched to another system it was pretty seamless and prospects never felt even a tremor.

In the corporate world companies often try to incorporate the functions of outside vendors to increase profit, this happens in the world of vertical marketing all the time, however it does not always work out as well as they anticipate.

You see most companies are pretty specialized at what they do and if they have been doing it for a while they are generally pretty good at it. To assume that you can replace the functions of a key vendor and immediately gain the same level of expertise in doing what they did as a business is sometimes naïve.

Carbon Copy Pro is a very good marketing system, but they have no experience being a top tier MLM company, conversely Wealth Masters International is a great Top Tier MLM but they have no experience in the world of online marketing.

Over time they will probably both gain the skills necessary to make their new ventures successful but in the mean time it’s probably best for Wealth Masters consultants to work with a proven system such as My Lead System Pro.

So what does the future hold for Wealth Masters International?

Well they are a proven force in the Top Tier MLM marketplace and their financial message is very much tuned into where today’s turbulent financial market is.

Kip Herriage’s (Co-Owner of Wealth Masters International) financial market expertise and forecasting skills are legendary, and their profitable Get Paid Today (GPT) compensation plan all point to the reasoning that that they will continue to do well into the future.

One note here is that with a profitable front end compensation plan like Wealth Masters, many consultants get excited about making $10,000 or so a month by using traditional MLM low volume marketing approaches, and never take their game to the next level by incorporating high volume online marketing strategies.

Since the Wealth Masters International has a very broad target market and can be marketing to prospects in any country in the world ( Wealth Masters currently has consultants in over 130 countries) it seems to be matched perfectly to a developing broad international marketing focus and using online marketing.

Now regardless of what you are selling let’s face it, with approximately 1.8 billion people online today, the future of pretty much all marketing is online.

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2011-8

Family IQ Marketing Secrets – Does The Family IQ Funnel System Work?

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I recently did a MLM company review on a new company called Family IQ that has been causing quite a stir in the MLM industry.

From my in depth Family IQ Review you already know all the general facts about the company, the product, and the lucrative Top Tier compensation plan, so now I want to review the marketing approach and sales funnel that most distributors receive when they join Family IQ.

Will the Family IQ marketing system work for you?

Can this fairly simple sales funnel and lead generation approach really stand up to the claims of master distributor Rod Stinson who supposedly uses several simple marketing approaches and a recorded tele-seminar to generate an average of $70,710 a month in income with Family IQ?

Now it’s no secret in the network marketing industry that top earners in most companies routinely pull in staggering amount of money in monthly commissions, sometimes hitting one hundred thousand and more, with some even reaching mid six figures in monthly income.

“Beam me up Scottie”…. I have stumbled into a parallel universe.

Hey we all know that there are stellar performers in every industry and company, you know, those are the people we all admire and hate at the same time.

They seem to be nice people but it’s those gaudy $87,000 monthly commission checks that just seem unfair!

However what most people really want to know is, can they do it, can they duplicate whatever success strategy is being used by the top earners so that they have a chance at the golden ring.

Well this is where the rubber meets the road, I could talk a long time about this issue and the reasons why some make it in network marketing and most fail but that’s for another article. See my recent blog post, MLM Success – The MLM 7 Figure Business Plan? What’s That?

I will tell you that the single biggest reason that most people fail in MLM (other than lack of motivation and focus) is because of what I refer to as “Lead Poverty”.

They just don’t understand marketing and how to generate leads so they keep dragging out their “warm market list” every time they go into a new MLM and badgering the same group of people until they finally join the “NFL” which means “No Friends Left”.

To succeed in MLM you have to understand a basic marketing principle called “The Law Of Large Numbers”, which tells you that success is numbers related. That means if you put a product in front of a large enough group of leads, you will have lots of sales.

It’s an input/output equation, the more leads you have, the more sales you have, and the more profit you have.

So how do you escape from Lead Poverty and embrace the Law of Large Numbers?

Now there are a lot of ways I coach people to do this, Old School MLM marketing approaches, Crossover Approaches, and Online Internet Driven MLM Marketing Approaches will all get you there.

The bottom line is that with a constant high volume lead flow, you can’t miss.

So let’s review the specific marketing and lead generation approaches that the Family IQ marketing system uses.

The Family IQ “Funnel Marketing System”

This is the core of the marketing approach and is a recorded webinar or teleseminar that features Master Distributor Rod Stinson doing an hour long opportunity presentation in which he goes over the concept of direct response marketing, talks about Family IQ & their Top Tier compensation plan, and shows his proof that the system works by featuring several photos of his dining room table covered in $1000 cashier’s checks.

Now the Family IQ teleseminar is actually a pretty powerful video that really does the heaving lifting for the distributor. Although I feel it’s probably a little long, but it gets the job done and hits the prospect at the very beginning of the presentation with the huge income potential and then keeps hammering home the point.

That is of course the beauty of the Top Tier MLM business model, you get the normal huge income potential of the long term residual income once you build a large group, but you also get big bucks up front.

This presentation comes in the form of a replicated website that each new Family IQ rep receives that includes a hosted capture page with an opt in form, a video presentation, a basic autoresponder with automatic follow up letters already written and in place, and a back office with a simple lead and contact manager.

This system is great for a new distributor since its all set up, and requires no technical knowledge on the part of the new rep. It’s pretty much plug and play.

The Family IQ “Lead Generation Prospecting Software”

Now this is one of the core parts of Rods Family IQ marketing funnel presentation which he mentions several times in the teleseminar as he talks about being able to generate thousands of free targeted lead daily to power your business.

Now of course this hits home with lots of prospects since the single biggest problem of a distributor in the MLM industry is in fact generating leads and finding prospects, but the question is does this software really work?

Well the answer is yes, I have actually had quite a bit of experience with software such as this and it does in fact do what it claims to do, that is to generate leads.

This is actually a software program you buy at a discount and download to your computer. Once its setup you can direct it to use its search functions to scour the internet to find different classes of potentially interested opportunity seekers for the Family IQ business. The software then extracts a leads name and phone number from internet websites, online adverting portals like Craig’s list, or online classified advertising directories.

Generally the biggest target market for these scrapers are going after people who are already in network marketing. This is easily done by just using any MLM company name as a keyword in the software and then pulling the names and phone numbers of distributors off of their company replicated websites.

Since in today’s market everyone who joins a MLM usually gets a company replicated website it’s no problem to find lots of leads.

Now two questions occur when using this type of a lead source and they relate to lead quality and to saturation.

If someone is already a distributor for another network marketing company what are the chances that they will be interested in a different MLM such as Family IQ?

Actually this is probably one of the best classes of leads you can go after since it’s a very targeted market. We already know this type of lead likes and believes in network marketing since they already are or were in the industry. So there are no long conversations trying to explain how MLM works, they already believe.

Also since the MLM industry is so transitional and attrition rates run 50% to 70% or more, its more than likely that most of your leads are either not happy with their success so far, have already dropped out, or may even be looking for a new deal as we speak.

On the saturation issue, the question is that if you have a several thousand Family IQ distributors all using the same software won’t they just be recycling the same leads or run the chance of actually running out of this type of lead?

Well to answer this question you just have to take a step back and look at the big picture.

Estimates of how many MLM companies are in the world currently range from 1500 to 5000 companies and the number fluctuates daily since so may fail every year and so many new ones start up.

Big network marketing companies such as NuSkin, Herbalife, Amway, MonaVie and many others have millions of distributors each, and if we even conservatively estimate that an average network marketing company has 10,000 distributors then you could have as many as 50 million distributors out there as Family IQ prospects.

Well I guess you probably are not going to run out of leads any time soon.

Now you have leads, what do you do with them?

Well that’s the next part of the Family IQ sales funnel system, once you have the leads, now you have to get the leads to the Family IQ replicated teleseminar that Rod Stinson does so they can view the information and decide if they want to join.

Now the beauty of a using a high volume automated lead funnel system for Family IQ, is that once your prospect views the presentation, they will either be pretty much ready to go, or they won’t be interested, there really is no in between when you are using a high volume approach, they either see it or they don’t.

The two main approaches that the Family IQ system uses to get your leads to the teleseminar are a direct phone approach called Dial & Ditch or an automated approach called Voice Broadcasting.

Dial and Ditch for Family IQ leads

With this approach you will use one of 2 scripts that you will download from Rod’s Family IQ training website and then you will actually call the phone numbers with the intention of leaving a short sizzle message on the prospects voice mail designed to get them interested enough in Family IQ to go to your replicated teleseminar website and opt in to view the presentation. That’s the Dial part. I taught this same approach years ago to my downline but at the time we called the approach “Phone Drops” and it really does work.

Now the ditch part is that if someone actually answers the phone you just hang up. Now since most new reps are usually nervous about directly talking to prospects since they don’t know what to say, the idea of not actually having to talk to anyone appeals to them and so they like this approach.

Now the one downside of this approach is that it takes time to do all those dials but the upside is that it’s free. My advice for anyone who feels confident on the phone is not to do the ditch part but to actually talk to the prospect on the other end of the line and use the same script.

I mean you are already spending the time to do the dial so why not use the time effectively and actually talk to your live prospects. Since you will be building rapport with your prospect by doing a live conversation your conversion ratio from lead to Family IQ distributor is going to be much higher.

Voice Broadcasting For Family IQ

Now this is the automated way to use your Family IQ scrapper leads. Voice broadcasting is a form of telemarketing that uses a web based autodialer to deliver the same short sizzle message you were using in the dial and ditch approach but does it for you. You just set up an account with a voice broadcast service such as iBuzzPro, record your phone message, upload your lead list to the website, push the start button and boom! The automated system can deliver your Family IQ sizzle message to thousands of prospects in about 20 min or less.

Voice broadcasting works, I have taught and used this marketing approach for years and have recruited hundreds of distributors using it. Response rates average from 1% to 5% depending on your message and several other factors but if you have some good training and coaching on using this type of system it a killer approach.

You can setup a voice broadcast in about 20 min, it really takes no technical skills, and once you trigger the broadcast you will have leads flowing in that have listened to your message and are highly interested within 30 min.

Its fast, efficient, and cheap. The prices vary widely on voice broadcasting from as little as 1.4 cents per connected call to as much as 25 cents or more per connected call. The systems with no setup fee charge more per call and the systems that are the cheapest to operate charge a setup fee of a few hundred dollars upfront.

My preference is to keep operating costs down and to use systems like iBuzzpro which was specifically designed for the direct marketers. Another benefit for customers who subscribe to the ibuzz system is that they also have the availability of buying professionally scrapped leads for as little as $99 for 25,000 MLM leads if you don’t want to mess around with scraping the leads yourself.

Two things to note here are that generally this type of telemarketing is regulated by the by way of what is called the National Do Not Call list and more recently by legislation that limited the use of these systems to call only consumers who have actually opted in to receive these calls, or business to business sales. The good news is that when you pull a lead off of the internet from a distributors MLM company website, that qualifies as a business listing since they are using that phone to receive calls about their MLM business.

Ezine advertising for Family IQ

This is another approach Rod’s Family IQ marketing system gives some training on, and of course it works. Ezines are the online equivalent of magazines and take many forms, ranging from newsletters to article directories, and many offer free or paid advertising where you can get an ad in front of thousands or millions of potential prospects and then redirect that traffic to your replicated website for Family IQ.

One again this approach works well, I have taught and used online advertising for years and of course today that’s where the traffic is, online. With a little coaching on copywriting a good ad, you can generate lots of leads to power your Family IQ business.

Postcards Marketing for Family IQ

This tried and true marketing approach is also included in the Family IQ marketing training by Rod Stinson. Postcards or direct mail have been an effective marketing approach for years, but recently since more and more marketers have switched to online approaches there has been a drop in direct mail which actually makes it more effective than it used to be. Its costs more but it can also be done in small batches to control cost.

So in conclusion and I can speak with some authority on this, these approaches that Family IQ uses do work. The only secret here is to actually do them, do them consistently, keep track of your numbers and adjust as you go.

Most MLM distributors are very inconsistent with their MLM lead generation efforts and so even if they use a great marketing approach, if they don’t get instant results they throw up their hands and quit.

Over the last 24 years I have spent in the network marketing industry they key to my success was the result of just a few critical factors, learning the Law of Large Numbers, high volume lead generation, and using effective sales funnels. It gave me the edge to master becoming a 7 figure earner in the industry.

Now of course these same Family IQ marketing strategies can be used pretty much to build any company, however when you combine and effective high volume sales funnel approach with a powerful Top Tier MLM compensation plan like Family IQ has, it give you the ability to create some real magic (and income) pretty quickly.

Using this type of a sales funnel system with a Top Tier program like Family IQ can give you the edge you need to get to those $10,000 monthly checks you have been waiting for.

Then once you have mastered this approach, you can then take it to the next level by learning how to use online lead generation strategies and really start tapping the big numbers that have the ability to get you to the 7 figure MLM success ballgame.

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My Lead System Pro Review – A Magic Bullet For MLM Success? Well Maybe…

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So let’s talk about My Lead System Pro, or as they used call themselves, MLM Lead System Pro.

Now My Lead System Pro, MLSP for short, is the brainchild of Brian Fanale, Norbert Orlewicz, and Todd Schlomer, three apparent refugees from the world of traditional MLM marketing who launched the system in September of 2008.

As I sat down to write this review about this MLM Online Marketing System and educational portal, I saw that there are many different approaches I could use to explain the system.

I thought about just listing the different elements of the online educational platform such as the cutting edge weekly training webinars that My Lead System Pro (MLSP) puts on for members that are hosted by successful online marketers such as Cedrick Harris, David Wood, Ray Higdon, Nicole Cooper, Mia Davies and others.

In these training webinars, these MLM marketing success stories share the intimate details of how they generate online traffic using Facebook, or Twitter, or Pay Per Click marketing, or Article Marketing or even video marketing and then ramp that into a literal flood of lead flow of 10, 20, 50, or even 100 leads a day using My Lead System Pro.

It’s pretty magical stuff actually.

My Lead System Pro is like having the online world deciphered and brought down to a level pretty much anyone can understand and of course copy.

Then of course I would have to list the different elements of the online marketing system that “My Lead System Pro” also makes available to their members such as the “out of the box” lead capture websites that are ready to go on day one, or maybe the more advanced versions for the non-beginners where you and point and click and have 5 or 10 custom website sales funnels up and running in less than 20 min.

Then there are the other elements of the My Lead System Pro marketing system such as the professionally written auto-responder messages, the video hosting capability, the affiliate income streams, and on and on.

There is actually so much to the My Lead System Pro system, that just to list all the elements in a review would make it sound more like a tech manual than a valuable tool.

So I decided to tell you a story instead.

Humm….Where do I begin.

I guess for me the journey into the world of high volume lead generation and automated sales funnels was not nearly the journey it is for a lot of people.

I have always understood the concept of working the numbers to achieve success in MLM and I had even developed a low-tech, high-volume lead funnel system over 24 years ago and it was in fact that marketing approach that launched me to over 7 figures a year in the MLM industry.

What took a little longer to understand about online marketing was the “Funded Proposal” concept and even a little harder was abandoning the “Pit Bull on the throat” approach to direct recruiting that I had been using for over 20 years and then trying to really get inside the “Attraction Marketing” model.

But hey, I am getting ahead of myself so this probably all sounds like Greek to you so let me start at the beginning and tell you why I decided to use one of the top online lead generation systems in the market today, My Lead System Pro, and how I leveraged the system to sponsor over 60 people in to my primary MLM in just a few months using an online marketing approach and also in the process generated thousands of dollars in affiliate commissions.

It was near the end of 2009 and I had been heavily involved for the last two years in building a team for a new MLM superjuice company when I had a moment of mental meltdown one night while experiencing the urge to karate chop my phone after having a lame discussion with an even lamer prospect who just did not get it.

Yes I know we all have those moments, but hey, I have been in the MLM industry for over 23 years and I have been to the top, earning 7 figures a year for many years, so one would think I would be “oh so wise” and way beyond all that childish “telephone anger”.

Well I hate to tell you this but even the so called Pro’s sometimes stumble around scratching their heads thinking “there has to be a better way”.

I mean I knew what to do, I had done it for years, just polish off the trusty old “7 figure business plan” and get to work.

I mean I had learned years ago that success in MLM is numbers related. The more leads you have, the more prospects you have, the more signups you have and so on.

I knew very well that to hit top earning status in any company you had to be able to bring 10+ people to the table as new distributors each month and then sift that down to the 20% Percenters that would form the base of you income and then somewhere over the next several months hopefully hit a magical 1% Percenter, and then bam!

Off to the races!

So I had a well oiled business plan ready to roll that I had used many times before, however the problem was that what works in the marketing world changes from time to time.

That marketing time warp had lead me from tiny 8 line sizzle newspaper adds 20 some years ago that would generate up to 100 leads a week, to the world of magazine advertising, then on to telemarketing machines, to fax blast advertising, to e mail marketing, to resume database mining, to internet job portal advertising, and so on, and so on, etc.

The marketing world never sleeps and it always evolves.

So there I was re-working some of my older approaches and hitting some good numbers but the volume just was not as high as it needed to be, and when the volume is not high it leads you to want to maximize your leads which leads to the urge to chase prospects and that invariably leads to the powerful urge to destroy you phone at some point after having some lame follow up discussion you know you never should have been having in the first place.

Well shortly after my telephone meltdown I got a call from one of my downline team members in Miami who for some reason was all excited and stopped by drop off a copy of the “Magnetic Sponsoring” e-book by industry legend Mike Dillard.

So I promised him I would read it but told him it was probably just some internet garbage so not to get his hopes up.

Now at that point I was just about ready to pull the plug on the day and go to the beach but I started reading the 80 page e book and I have to say it had me within a few pages as truth after truth about the MLM industry rolled off the page.

It talked about a world of “Attraction Marketing models”, of something called “Funded Proposals”, and of a powerful online marketing model.

Now I won’t digress into details on what is said since I recently did a blog post on it but I will say that it was so right on target it was scary. I could instantly see the direction I needed to go with my MLM business

Online……………….

Later that day I started buying and studying ever course Magnetic Sponsoring had to offer, “Building on a Budget”, “Black Belt Recruiting” and “Traffic Formula 2” for starters.

Within a day I knew exactly what needed to be done and as I poured through his course called “Traffic Formula 2”. Now I was a little disappointed that Mike Dillard did not actually offer an out of the box online marketing system but instead he was going to show you how to build your own.

So I was over half way through the course when the thought occurred to me that I could build the system, but that someone in the internet universe had probably already done it.

I searched the internet and then “bam” there it was, a My Lead System Pro capture page with a video of some guy called Cedrick Harris sitting on his porch in Tampa, FL with a lake in the background telling me how he was going to teach me how to generate leads online.

So obviously I joined, and My Lead System Pro was in fact the missing link that I was looking for, an educational portal that would teach me how to tap into the power of the internet to build my business and the also supply me with the websites, lead capture pages, auto-responders, and everything necessary to capture and convert those leads to prospects and then to distributors.

Understanding key elements of the My Lead System Pro marketing system.

1. Just do it! High volume lead generation is the only reliable way to achieve success in MLM and pretty much the entire future of advertising is online. So either learn it now or learn it later, but there is no escaping it. Marketing and training systems like My Lead System Pro can do just that for you.

2. The Learning Curve: There will be a learning curve with the approaches you lean in My Lead System Pro, but it’s not rocket science, anyone can do it with a little study. The only trick is to not overwhelm yourself with too much information all at once and then try to go in too many different directions at the same time. Start with one online lead generation approach, master it to the point of sufficiency and then add an additional approach and so on.

3. Attraction Marketing Model: Systems like My Lead System Pro are generic and can be used to build any MLM company. Keep in mind that since you are not advertising your Primary MLM company’s name but rather are generating leads generically, systems like this are in compliance with any MLM’s rules and regulations no matter how restrictive.

4. Funded Proposal: I love this part, with systems like My Lead System Pro you will actually make money as a result of your lead generation activities whether or not the prospects ever join your Primary MLM. This is probably the only marketing system you have ever used that will actually generate a positive cash flow if you do it right. The “My Lead System Pro” system itself generates a monthly income stream when your prospects decide they want to use it and there are already several other affiliate income streams already built into the system so you don’t have to use brain cells to try to figure it out. In the early days of building your business, it’s quite possible that My Lead System Pro will probably throw off more cash flow than your primary MLM.

So, the question you are probably asking right now is…..

Is My Lead System Pro the missing element?

Is My Lead System Pro that critical part of the puzzle that is going to change the course of events in your MLM future and finally make you successful?

Well maybe yes, or maybe no…..

I guess the real magic is not so much in a sexy online marketing system like My Lead System Pro, that is without a doubt in my book the best of the online systems out there, but rather in finally understanding that success in Network Marketing is a numbers game of the highest magnitude.

In my book trying to achieve success in a business model where 50%++ of the people drop out and even fewer still have the drive to treat this like a real business, by simply making a list of your friends and family and then trying to beat them into submission to join you in the business, is a little like taking a knife to a gunfight, your chances of survival or success are slim.

However once you learn the law of “large numbers” and then embrace using leveraged marketing tools like “My Lead System Pro” that can do the heavy lifting (and sifting) for you then you are on the right track.

Once you are on that path there is little doubt once again that the future of all advertising is pretty much online, and systems like My Lead System Pro can give you not only the education you need to understand what you are doing but also the technology to leverage your marketing efforts.

Think of it like this, there are by last accounts 1.7 billion people online as of Sept 2009, now can you imagine just for a moment being able to reach out and touch just the smallest fraction of that traffic and direct it to your business?

Pretty exciting thought isn’t it.

So it’s probably time to start learning what you need to, so that can be part of your future.

So what’s next?

Click on the My Lead System Pro link to learn more.

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